Want to know what it's like to be unfamous Kotaku mobile editor Michael Fahey for a week? Play around 30 gaming apps across three platforms while attempting to connect to SimCity in order to write a review of a game that you assure everyone will think is pretty good once they can connect to it. Also write some tips, and cry a lot. Oh, and the PC you're reviewing SimCity on has one of these attached to it.

Did I mention I am moving next weekend, and have added more things to my current residence this week than I've actually packed? It's been one of those weeks that make me respond to "Oh you write about video games for a living? That must be so much fun!" with cutlery.

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Honestly it's not so bad. I get to play some amazing games (see below), and I get to do it while I'm close to my children, but not close enough to strangle them. It's a good life. You should try it. Let me know where to mail the kids.

Belie3ve it or not, this is a collectible card game. Players purchase boosters and build a deck that represents a military squad, and then battles play out real-time in 3D. I can see in-app purchases becoming an issue here, but the concept is very cool.

This one's incredibly cool. You're a Russian scientist with the power of teleportation, tasked with trapping roaming monsters in special warp gate dealios. Very tricky puzzles in this one, and a really groovy style.

A delightful little platformer starring a painting monkey. The controls are really odd — tap a side to move in the direction and the opposite to jump, switch when changing directions — but it's cute enough to power on through.

SUDA51's awesome downloadable 3DS shooter comes to iOS, and it's so good. Touch screen controls are a little tricky, but I dare you to find a better sci-fi game starring the female president of New Japan anywhere.

When Sega's Hardlight Studio released Sonic Jump last year, I shook my head. Jumping is not the ability Sonic the Hedgehog is known for. This week Hardlight has released endless runner Sonic Dash on iOS. More »